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Smile of Discontent: Humor, Gender, and Nineteenth-century British Fiction (Women in Culture & Society) (Paperback)

by E Gillooly (Author) "Christ was saying something to the people one day, which interested Him very much, and interested them very much; and Mary and his brothers came..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 316 pages
  • Publisher: Chicago University Press; illustrated edition edition (29 Jun 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0226294021
  • ISBN-13: 978-0226294025
  • Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.3 x 1.8 cm
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Like sex, Eileen Gillooly argues, humour has long been viewed as a repressed feature of 19th-century femininity. However, in the works of writers such as Jane Austen, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, and Henry James, Gillooly finds an understated, wryly amusing perspective that differs subtly but significantly in rhetoric, affect, and politics from traditional forms of comic expression. Gillooly shows how such humour became, for mostly female writers at the time, an unobtrusive and prudent means of expressing discontent with a culture that was ideologically committed to restricting female agency and identity. If the aggression and emotional distance of irony and satire mark them as "masculine", then for Gillooly, the passivity, indirection, and sympathy of the humour she discusses render it "feminine." She goes on to disclose how the humorous tactics employed by writers from Burney to Wharton persist in the work of Barbara Pym, Anita Brookner, and Penelope Fitzgerald.
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Christ was saying something to the people one day, which interested Him very much, and interested them very much; and Mary and his brothers came in the middle of it, and wanted to interrupt Him, and take Him home to dinner, very likely ..., and He ... answers, "Who is my mother? and who are my brethren? Read the first page
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